MUSKEGON, MI – Muskegon business attorney Jeff Jacobson said he and his
partner Mark Gongalski must have looked at every available commercial building
in Muskegon County seeking a home for their “community brewery” business.

The Unruly Brewing Co. will take up nearly half of the 5,000 square feet of
space on the Russell Block Market’s first level. Operated by the nonprofit
Muskegon Retail Incubator Inc., the Russell Block Market board is now looking
for tenants to fill the remainder of the retail space, especially with food
outlets that would complement the new microbrewery.

“We are about to create another exciting destination location for downtown
Muskegon,” according to Terry MacAllister, president of the MRI board. “Unruly
and the other food businesses we are lining up will offer customers and patrons
something different – a place to come hang out, drink some microbrews, choose
among different food offerings, browse related shops and enjoy an all-around fun
experience.

“We are extremely excited to be having this building after a six- or
seven-month search,” Gongalski said. “We were looking for a location to provide
us a beer garden atmosphere and at an economical rate. It was tough to find but
this is awesome news. We are glad to be going downtown.”

Muskegon downtown promoters and economic developers said they are thrilled to
have Muskegon County’s first microbrewery in the heart of the central business
district. Muskegon is one of the untapped markets in West Michigan for the craft
brewing boom that is going on around the region, said Andrew Haan, head of
Downtown Muskegon Now – a downtown development and marketing organization.

As a “community brewery,” Unruly Brewing Co. will open with a four-barrel
brewing system and a taproom for tasting, the owners said. Another business
partner is Eric Hoffman, who will be Unruly’s head brewer, they said.

To create the “beer-garden” atmosphere, Unruly Brewing will have an outside
seating area in the space between the Russell Block building and the Hines
Building to the east, the owners said. The company hopes to have its liquor
license good for the entire building and outdoor beer garden, the owners
said.

The concept of a community-based beer-making business is to cater to the
large home-brewing movement in the Muskegon-area, Gongalski said. Unruly will
offer up to eight taps for different kinds of beers. Of those, three or four
will be Unruly house brands that will always be available, while the brewing
company will have specialty beers that rotate.

Also being offered will be beers created by home brewers on the Unruly
equipment. Gongalski said that Unruly will announce the community aspects of its
business as its opening date approaches.

“The sky’s the limit on what we are going to be able to offer from this
location,” Gongalski said.

Jacobson said the business will be licensed as a microbrewery, which will
allow production up to 30,000 barrels of beer a year. However, Unruly will begin
at a much more modest level of production, he said.

The brewing company will sell its beers on site by the pint and in “growlers”
– half gallon containers to go. The company hopes to bottle its most popular
brews for sale in six-packs in the Muskegon area, Gongalski said.

Gongalski and Jacobson were both raised in Muskegon. Gongalski is a 1997
graduate of Whitehall High School and has a home remodeling business, MG Modern.
Jacobson is a business attorney with the Parmenter O’Toole law firm and is a
1990 graduate of Mona Shores High School.

Post, who also has developed the next door Century Club Center of retail
shops and the nearby Heritage Square Townhouses, now must complete the Russell
Block Market construction and MRI fill the rest of the space. The incubator
organizers said finding tenants wanting to join Unruly Brewing isn’t going to be
a problem.

“Ideally, we would like to see specialty burgers, homemade sausages and
brats, artisan breads and rolls, specialty coffees, desserts, herbs and spices,
kitchen gear -- anything that has to do with eating and preparing food,” said
Eileen McCormick, MRI executive director.

Jacobson and Gongalski said talk of other brewing businesses in the Muskegon
area is exciting.

“The more microbrewers we can have in Muskegon the better. That would be
awesome,” Gongalski said. “The craft beer industry is a big community. It’s like
a family.”

The five pairs of duplexed bearings from Kaydon Bearings Division in Muskegon save space and weight in two important areas: preparing rock material samples for analysis and supporting the steering actuators for the rover’s wheels.

The one-ton Curiosity, about the size of a small SUV, will analyze samples drilled from rocks or scooped from the ground to assess whether the environment near its landing site might once have been able to support life. The rover was designed, developed and assembled by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

One pair of duplexed Reali-Slim bearings is in the CHIMRA (Collection and Handling for In-Situ Rock Analysis), one of a number of devices mounted on a turret at the end of the rover’s robotic arm. These angular contact bearings with a three-inch outside diameter are a key part of the “thwack” mechanism that must keep the primary sieve from clogging so that samples can reach the analytical instruments. The screens in the sieves have tiny holes — 150-micron and 1mm — to produce particles of the appropriate size. JPL engineers decided early on that thin section bearings were the best way to handle the load in the small space available, and built the design around them.

The other four sets of Kaydon bearings (7-inch outside diameter, 6-inch bore) support the steering actuators on Curiosity’s four corners and relieve some of the load on them, which was critical during the landing. These bearings, like those in the CHIMRA, are angular contact in duplex pairs, with races and balls of 440C stainless steel and a built-in preload. JPL requested that all be shipped dry, including the phenolic separators, so they could add a space-rated lubricant that would not turn viscous in the extreme cold or evaporate in the thin atmosphere.

With a typical speed of about one inch per second, this latest rover is expected to cover about 660 feet of Martian terrain per day when it begins collecting samples in September. For the next 23 months it will send data, images and a variety of scientific observations back to Earth, where scientists hope the $2.5 billion mission will shed light on the question of whether there is — or has ever been — life on Mars.

Kaydon Bearings Division (www.kaydonbearings.com) is a leading global manufacturer of standard and custom thin section bearings, high-level bearing assemblies, and slewing ring bearings for a wide range of manufacturing and process applications. The division is also a major supplier of remanufactured and new replacement bearings.

Kaydon Corp. (www.kaydon.com) is a leading designer and manufacturer of custom-engineered, performance-critical products, supplying a broad and diverse group of alternative-energy, industrial, aerospace, medical, and electronic equipment, and aftermarket customers.

August 6, 2012 Written by: WZZM 13 ONLINE

The company sells Rey Trucks online. Re-Source Industries President Paul Kuyt says sales are good even with little conventional advertising, "It is word of mouth, and socialmedia."

Kuyt's company already makes parts for cars, slot machines, compound bows, and hand dryers for restroom. Manufacturing parts for longboards wasn't a consideration until he and his two children took up the activity several years.

Kuyt says, "I purchased a set of trucks from another manufacturer and I just was not impressed with the quality for the price. It seemed like it was too much money and I could do a better job."

That lead to a challenge for employees at Re-Source Industries. Now the Rey Trucks line is in full productions. From a small shipping room on Getty Street the trucks are sent all over the world, "One out of every trucks we sell goes to Australia."

Longboards are especially popular on college campuses and in large cities. Unlike bicycles the boards can be stored under a desk or in a locker.

Re-Source Industries has just under 50 employees. Rey Trucks start at $139 per set.

The show will document how researchers at the institute have undertaken
projects to restore threatened fish species, provide clean drinking water for
impoverished regions of the world and control the spread of invasive species in
the Great Lakes.

Also highlighted will be the institute’s outreach efforts, including two
vessels that take K-12 and college students on research trips throughout Lake
Michigan, Muskegon Lake and Spring Lake.

“This is going to bring high technology of automotive paint to Muskegon,” MCC
Vice President for Academic Affairs Teresa Sturrus said.

In 2009, the Michigan Department of Treasury created a program that allowed
Michigan businesses that were hiring workers in-state to use income taxes they
would have withheld from their workers’ salaries to pay for worker training from
local community colleges.

The program was popular and quickly hit the $50 million cap set for it, so
the Department of Treasury set up a system in which it would forgo $200,000 in
taxes at a time with all of that money directed toward one community college and
a company it chose to partner with.

The community colleges were put in a random order
to decide who would get the funds first, MCC Director of Business and Industrial
Training Dan Rinsema-Sybenga said. MCC
was sixth on the list.

Kendra Stanley-Mills | MLive.comADAC
A company that manufactures automotive parts, is located at 2050 Port City Boulevard in Muskegon.

Of the $200,000, $169,413 is designated for training and materials while
$26,087 is earmarked for administrative costs. The remaining $4,500 is
designated for contingency funds. It will be used over the next seven years.

The money has to go toward training workers who will make at least 175
percent of the state minimum wage, or about $12.95 per hour, Rinsema-Sybenga
said. It can’t be used for recalled employees, new hires who will replace
existing employees or part-time workers, he said.

First, the college will buy bonds on the municipal market to raise the
$200,000 in training funds, he said. ADAC’s contract with the college will
require it to buy those bonds.

Only after the workers have been trained and begin earning wages, which are
subject to state income tax, will the state begin forgoing the tax to pay ADAC
for the bonds it bought to finance the worker training.

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